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title: "Stories: Ceremonies from Real Life | Bagtun"
description: "From a greenhouse in Lengnau to a sandy beach in Lucerne: real weddings with Timo Schaffeld, featured in Braut & Bräutigam and Swiss Wedding."
url: https://bagtun.ch/en/stories/
lang: en
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# Stories

What happens when you listen before you write: three examples from my work.

## Let love grow in the greenhouse

- Sarah & Dominik
- Wedding ceremony in the greenhouse of the Lengnau garden centre
- Wedding planning: Jessica Masiero, Jessie's Weddings
- Photos: Oliver Malicdem
- Featured in Braut & Bräutigam, May 2024

Sarah and Dominik met at dance school. For their yes they chose a greenhouse full of plants, true to their motto: Let love grow. In the morning it rained and stormed, and shortly before the ceremony the sun came out.

It was a wonderful ceremony. There were tears and laughter, the rings were tied together with a cord in a ritual, and instead of flower girls there were dancing flower boys.

The day was organised by Jessica Masiero of [Jessie's Weddings](https://www.jessiesweddings.ch/). I have created several weddings with her. When planning and ceremony go hand in hand, the couple and guests can give themselves fully to the moment.

The photos are by [Oliver Malicdem](https://www.olivermalicdem.com/).

> Timo from Bagtun became our celebrant, and with his open and warm manner he won the hearts of everyone present.

Dominik in Braut & Bräutigam magazine, translated from German

[Read the full article in Braut & Bräutigam (German)](https://www.brautmagazin.ch/hochzeitsblog/sarah-und-dominik/)

## Peace, love and happiness on the sandy beach

- Badi Tribschen, Lucerne
- Festival styled shoot for the wedding planner training
- Featured in Swiss Wedding, Autumn 2021

Ten wedding planners in training at AWEE, the Swiss Academy of Wedding & Event Education, wanted to show what a wedding can be. Their motto: peace, love and happiness. Their stance: marriage for all. They placed two brides at the centre, with flower crowns, festival ribbons and a wedding arch in the shape of a peace sign made of flowers.

My task was the same as at every wedding: to be there. To look at two people, read the words and hold the moment so that it becomes true. Even when it is staged, the sentence has to be true when it is spoken.

Swiss Wedding dedicated two pages to the day under the title “In all the colours of the rainbow”, and the moment with the words being read became the opening image.

[Read the article as a PDF (German)](https://bagtun.ch/assets/presse/swiss-wedding-herbst-2021.pdf)

## From Thun to Bern in the same boat

- Esmee & Baris
- July 2022
- Wedding ceremony with their own words

Some couples bring their own words. Baris wrote a poem for Esmee, and it holds their whole story: a date, a coffee by the lake, two paddles and a trip from Thun to Bern.

That is exactly what our conversations are about. I don't only ask what the dream wedding looks like, but also what you have to say to each other. When the answer sounds like this, all I have to do is place it in the right moment.

> It takes two paddels to stay afloat / From Thun to Bern and steer the boat

Baris A.

[More about the wedding ceremony](https://bagtun.ch/en/ceremonies/wedding/)